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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8424916" data-attributes="member: 4534">A lot of people have a hard time vetting information from online sources.  This is partly because it's all too easy where within a few clicks the algorithm will put you in a nice little bubble and it isn't always easy to break out.  In 2020 I was listening to some Warhammer 40 lore/news videos on YouTube when I started seeing a bunch of videos show up in my feed from people complaining about SJWs, people who unironically referred to others as "soy boys," and complained that the woke brigade was ruining everything (including from some Youtuber who was banned from Magic tournaments because he was a jerk).  And I finally figure it out when I listened to one of my lore videos and the guy was complaining because Games Workshop released a work of fiction featuring a black Ultramarine on the cover.  Facebook's algorithm just figured I must like that sort of thing and kept linking similar videos to it.  I don't mean to suggest here that people aren't responsible for for what they say or believe.  But with all those videos appearing in my feed I could certainly see how easy it would have been for me to descend into a rabbit hole.  It's certainly happened to other people.  And for a lot of us older people, and I'm not as old as others, the internet still doesn't feel real.  I think Dave Chappell recently said something like, "I don't care about Twitter you know why?  Because Twitter's not a real place!"  And I have to admit that I see where he's coming from.  A lot of the nonsense I see online isn't something I see in the real world.</blockquote>

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